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Gazprom, Russia's government-owned energy giant, shut off natural gas flows early Wednesday through Nord Stream 1, the critical pipeline that connects Russia to Germany, raising fresh worries about European energy supplies.Gazprom said the…

Luna 27 and Chang'e-6, for example, are said to drill into the surface and bring samples back to Earth - an accomplishment that China did three times a year with Chang'e-5 last December and the Soviet Union with Luna landers three times a…

Tourists walk along Red Square in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow on November 6, 2020.ALEXANDER NEMENOV | AFP | Getty ImagesWith Russia's coronavirus shot Sputnik V sluggishly received among its own citizens, Russia is…

China and Russia have agreed to jointly build a research station on or around the moon in order to create the conditions for a new space race.The United States and the Soviet Union, followed by their successor state Russia, have long…

MOSCOW - The Russian government said Wednesday that it is slowing access to Twitter, accusing the social network of failing to remove illegal content and signaling that the Kremlin is escalating its offensive against American internet…

Russian President Vladimir Putin.Alexei Nikolsky | ReutersRussia has announced that it will impose restrictions on the social media platform Twitter for not removing illegal content from its platform.The Federal Service for Communications,…

In writings and conversations over the past four years, Mr Sullivan has made it clear that he believes that traditional sanctions alone do not increase costs enough to force powers like Russia or China to talk about new rules for…

A woman receives the second component of the Gam-COVID-Vac (Sputnik V) COVID-19 vaccine.Valentin Sprinchak | TASS | Getty ImagesLONDON - The European Medicines Agency announced Thursday that it will begin assessing the Russian coronavirus…

"The audience doesn't care if you bought data or got it from a source," said Roman Anin, founder of iStories, a non-profit Russian investigative agency with 15 employees. He said he found that "since we've lived in a country where…

Workers unload the cargo from a Hungarian Airbus 330 plane after transporting the first doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus (Covid-19) at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport on February 16, 2021.ZOLTAN…